Sun
Tzu, the ancient Chinese military philosopher who is oft quoted in
our military institutions, wrote “One who is not acquainted with the
designs of his neighbors should not enter into alliances with them.”

This
quote surfaced in my consciousness as I walked the aisles of a new
Dollar-type store yesterday, picking up items and turning them over
to see where they were made. I counted 20 items, of which 19 were
made in “China,” and one in Pakistan. As a WWII baby boomer who grew
up during the 50s and 60s, I could not help but shudder in the fact
that I was holding items that were made by an avowed enemy, one that
along with the former Soviet Union, forced me and my classmates in
elementary school and junior high school to practice “Duck and Cover”
and quick response to air raid sirens. In those post-war days we had
a Civil Defense organization, were encouraged to prepare for a nuclear
strike, build fallout shelters, and be ready in case Russia, China,
or even Castro came over the horizon. Those days have faded away,
but living through the Cold War and the ever-present threat of “the
bomb” will remain with us forever.

Now
there is no Civil Defense Corps, the fallout shelters are empty or
used for storage, and we are told that the Soviet Union has collapsed,
and the Red China is now our trading partner (and Taiwan never mentioned),
and the only Barbarians at the Gate are North Korea and certain countries
in the Middle East that support terrorist organizations.

However,
as a student of history, and a former intelligence analyst, I see
another world growing up around us. One the media ignores, the politicians
refuse to recognize, and one of which the American people remain ignorant.
It is a world in which we are surrounded, being infiltrated, and readied
for invasion.

To
understand what his happening today, one must understand certain military
tenets of warfare. These include:

Infiltrate
the enemy country with advance forces and spies.

Pre-position
supplies close to the anticipated battleground.

Destroy
the enemy’s will to resist.

Destroy
the enemy population’s morals and morale.

Sew
confusion among the enemy population.

Cut
lines of communication.

Create
diversions.

Control
all information and media outlets.

Attack
on many fronts.

Destroy
the enemy’s capability to wage war.

Reduce
or destroy enemy’s military bases.

Strike
only when ready and when enemy is at his weakest.

In
the intelligence world, what we do is take pieces of information,
like pieces of a puzzle, and “put them on the wall and see what picture
develops.” Lord Wellington of Waterloo once said “I’ve spent my entire
military career wondering what the chap on the other side of the hill
was doing.” In intelligence circles, information gathering is chief
among tasks, followed by “okay, what are they up to?”

Let
us examine some current “intelligence indicators” and see what picture
forms.

Over
the last few decades, ever since Nixon went to China in 1972 to open
trade relations, we have seen the Communist Chinese grow from a third-rate
military force whose strength lay only in numbers to a very modern
and well-equipped force ready to do battle on a global scale. Unlike
Russia, the Chinese have done this very quietly, trying not to draw
attention to their efforts, and with one goal in mind: destroy the
United States and any allies. And we have helped them toward that
goal. In fact, we continue to help them every day when we buy Chinese-made
products. But beyond that, let’s examine events that have strengthened
China’s military endeavors while weakening ours:

Carter
gave away the Panama Canal, and now China operates it—and has total
control of who uses it, what ships come and go, and who disembarks
from those ships in Panama (such as Chinese males of military age
that disappear into the hinterlands and later surface in Mexico close
to our southern border).

Bill
Clinton gave China “most favored nation” trading status, opening our
market to cheap slave-labor-made goods, which also destroyed many
US companies and costing us jobs by underselling the market with cheap
products. At the same time we turned our back on long-time ally, Nationalist
China. All of this to “appease” the Red Chinese.

Under
the Clinton administration, Loral and Hughes were allowed to sell
China missile technology and guidance systems for “communications
satellites.” Within months we were told that China now bragged about
being able to deliver a nuclear warhead to Los Angeles.

Also
under the Clinton watch, Chinese spies were discovered at Los Alamos
and in other places, some of which stole nuclear secrets for the People’s
Liberation Army. (“All warfare is based on deception. There is
no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure
him” -- Sun Tzu)

While
all of this was happening, our southern border was being invaded by
illegal aliens to the point that besides Mexicans, we have many reports
of Asians, Central Americans, and Middle-easterners coming unhindered
into the U.S.

Couple
this with COSCO, the China Ocean Shipping Company, which is the Merchant
Marine arm of the Chinese Navy, taking over not only the Panama Canal,
but establishing a huge transshipment center in Freeport, Bahamas,
just off the Florida coast. This huge complex contains some of the
biggest cranes in the world, plus hundreds upon hundreds of Sealift
containers the size of semi-trucks being stored there. When I see
this I can’t help but think of Diego Garcia, our forward deployment
base in the Pacific.

It
is well known in the military that the easiest thing to move is troops.
The hardest to move is material. You can order troops to march onto
a ship or airplane, but it takes forklifts, cranes and manpower to
move supplies. By forward deploying your logistics you are already
half a battle ahead.

And
Freeport is not the only suspect position for Chinese pre-deployment
stocks. Reports have surfaced about COSCO ships unloading in Mexico
and Canada, plus several ports inside the US itself. A few years back
we read of a shipment in a Sealift container that came into Long Beach,
California, loaded with automatic AK-47s, machine guns, grenades and
explosives. We were told it was intercepted, and that it was probably
being smuggled in to street gangs. We may never know of how many other
shipments went undetected, and are still being smuggled in and pre-positioned.
And not for street gangs!

Add
to all this the fact that our own troops have been over-extended,
our military suffering a continuing “build down” by base closings,
reducing the numbers of aircraft in our squadrons and ships in our
fleets, and reduction of war stocks by expenditure without restocking,
plus using up our reserves and national guard forces in extended overseas
missions, and we have the recipe for disaster. In other words, there
ain’t no one home watching the chickens, and the wolf is prowling
the broken fence line.

There
are those who say that China is being influenced by prosperity, and
that they are reaping the rewards of capitalism, and because of this
have no reason to use military might to forward Mao’s version of Communism.
These pie-in-the-sky wishers do not understand the Chinese. What we
are really doing is financing their military buildups, technology,
and monetary base. Those who have forgotten history need to be reminded
that we did the same thing in the 1930s when we sold scrap metal to
Japan, only to reap the whirlwind when they used our metal in the
ships and planes and bombs that attacked Pearl Harbor. Hitler’s Germany
also prospered from “free trade” by using our technology in the petroleum
industry to manufacture fuels and lubricants by synthetic means. Still,
we continue to feed the Chinese dragon and think nothing of where
our money goes when we buy those items “Made in China.”

While
we are looking at the pieces of the puzzle, we also need to add the
other pieces that match the tenets of war. Sun Tzu wrote that “Appraise
war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors
is moral influence”, and also “When a leader is morally weak and his
discipline not strict, when there are no consistent rules…Neighboring
rulers will take advantage of this.”

We
can see the moral decay of this country over the last thirty years
all around us. The types of TV programs, the language on radio talk
shows, the “gay pride” marches in major cities, the loss of morals
in our schools, attacks on Christianity, legal abortion—on—demand,
laws that are totally contrary to what our founding fathers envisioned,
courts that punish the victims more than the offenders, activist judges
that legislate from the bench, removing mentions of God or the Ten
Commandments from prayer and public property and public events, the
bogus “war on drugs” that is actually putting more drugs on the street,
church leaders that are afraid to preach anything that might offend
someone, and on and on.

An
unjust and un-moral society is one doomed to extinction. Our founding
fathers knew this. History verifies it. And the Chinese study it.

While
China is ready to move on Taiwan at any time—they’ve positioned huge
amphibious forces near the Straights of Formosa—and North Korea is
ready to move south, the possibility also exists that an entirely
different scenario will develop.

In
this scenario, the forces that now surround us “come to our rescue.”

Picture
this: our military, as strapped as it is, is in Iraq, Afghanistan,
and maybe in the near future, Iran. We still have troops in South
Korea, Germany and other places. Our national guard and reserves have
been deployed overseas. Our law enforcement personnel are stretched
thin. And then a major terrorist event—or a series of them—occurs.
This event could be detonation of mini-nukes in major cities, release
of a biological weapon starting a pandemic, or some other major media
event-type attack.

Who
do you call for help? Ghostbusters?

The
plan is to call upon the UN to provide military, humanitarian and
law enforcement relief. The only army big enough to handle a country
of this size, with the means to move the personnel, is Red China (backed
by Russia and the former Warsaw Pact states that we have been training
for such an event at Fort Polk, Louisiana under Operation Cooperative
Nugget).

Seem
far-fetched? Then know this: a few years ago I had a nephew who attended
the Command and Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. When his
class graduated, a general from the Pentagon flew in to give the graduation
speech. When he was introduced, it was mentioned that he was a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations—whose mission in life is to develop
a one world government (the New World Order) and who were the founders
of the United Nations. This particular general stated in his speech
that (paraphrasing)“due to the build down or our armed forces, should
we be deployed or committed on two or more fronts in the future and
a major emergency occurs here, we will be forced to call upon foreign
assets to police our streets.”

Foreign
assets? Who could that be?

Sun
Tzu also said that “To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme
excellence.” With no guarded borders, and no one to guard them, and
an avowed enemy who tells its military daily that “our main enemy
is America,” I would have to submit that this country is set up for
a major fall, and very soon.

The
good news is this: The Second Amendment. The Chinese military is very
frustrated in the fact that their liberal socialist lackeys in Washington
have not been able to totally disarm the American people—yet. They
have, by means of Fabian Socialism (creeping) legislation, reduced
our firepower by outlawing “types” of firearms—specifically those
that have military applications—but have not been able to register
for confiscation all the guns in the country like they have in Australia,
the UK and Canada. China well knows after its failed expeditions into
Vietnam and India that fighting an armed population or a guerrilla
type war is not winnable unless you first have the hearts and minds—and
cooperation--of the population.

We
also have another advantage, one not spoken off but still resident:
Our combat veterans. The United States has the largest pool of combat
veterans in our population of any country in the world. From our Vietnam
generation (who is now in their 40s and 50s and beyond) to our Desert
Storm, Somalia, and current Afghanistan and Iraq vets who are no longer
serving, we have a cadre base of “trainers and leaders” second to
none. When one factors this in, we have to consider that China may
wait a few years for more of us to die off. But they won’t wait forever.
We are a weakened giant, one that has be subverted from within and
without, and one considered ripe for the picking. They have to reduce
our will to resist, plus our means of resisting before they can hope
to “patrol our streets.”

While
the Chinese currently are reacting to Sun Tzu’s axiom “Nothing is
more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions,”
I would offer another “old saying,” this one derived from India: “Beware
he who rides the tiger, lest he end up inside.”

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Still,
we are at a very dangerous juncture. We are weakened, we have been
subverted, and we are surrounded. And every time we buy something
made in China, we are helping the enemy.

As
the Samurai would say, often as a curse, “we are living in interesting
times.”

(To
view a Powerpoint presentation on this topic, go to Craig Roberts’
website, www.riflewarrior.com,
scroll down to “articles” and select “We Are Surrounded.”)

Craig Roberts has lived a life many people only
dream about. He is an internationally published author of over a dozen
books, has written hundred of magazine and newspaper articles, appeared
in several shows on The History Channel, written for Time-Life books,
hosted a radio talk show and appeared on scores of radio talk shows. He
is a US Marine Vietnam combat veteran, where he served in a line company
and as a Marine sniper--hence his extensive writing on marksmanship, sniping,
weapons and the 2nd Amendment.

He is also a career police officer, having retired
in 1996 with over 26 years of service with the Tulsa Police Department,
where he served in patrol division, undercover assignments, SWAT (Special
Operations), and as a police helicopter pilot with the Air Support Unit
for 14 years. He has had a dual career, while serving as a police officer
he continued his military career in the reserves where he completed 30
years total service in 1999 as an infantry and intelligence officer.

He retired at the rank of lieutenant colonel
in the Army Reserve. Craig is a highly decorated combat veteran, and holds
four medals from the police department including the Tulsa Police Department's
second highest award, the Medal of Valor. Craig is the author of The
Medusa File: Crimes and Coverups of the US Government, Kill Zone:
A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza, and One Shot--One Kill: America's Combat
Snipers among others.

However,
as a student of history, and a former intelligence analyst, I see another
world growing up around us. One the media ignores, the politicians refuse
to recognize, and one of which the American people remain ignorant.